BIO

My name is Fernando. I am an organizational scientist and Associate Professor of public administration at El Colegio de México. I was born in Mexico City in 1984. I did my undergraduate studies in Mexico and Spain, and my MSc and PhD in The Netherlands. I am interested mainly in public policy implementation, corruption, professionalization and bureaucratic pathologies in government organizations.

RESEARCH

A selection of my academic projects

AN AGENDA FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

2019

"This book includes a series of contributions and proposals intended to imagine an agenda of reforms, challenges and new paths for the Mexican public administration of the 21st Century"

AUTHORITARIAN LEGACIES AND TRUST

2019

"This study examines the performance of the administrative institutions of Mexico after almost three decades since  transition to democracy."

PUBLIC MANAGERS AND INNOVATION

2017

"[...] Our data and results do suggest that intraorganizational networking and motivations arising from the institutional characteristics of the public organization may be important in explaining public managers’ innovative behavior."

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TEACHING

Lectures & workshops

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

El Colegio de México

This course offers an introduction to the theoretical and conceptual bases, language, and classical and contemporary debates of the public administration discipline.

QUANTITATIVE METHODS

El Colegio de México

This course provides students with the technical basis and theory of statistical methods for the social and behavioral sciences. It introduces students into the standards of scientific gathering, analysis and reporting of empirical data.

WORKSHOP: QUALITY FOR GOVERNMENTS

Escuela de Administración Pública de la Ciudad de México

This workshop presents the principles of lean management for the public sector. Specifically, it introduces the notion of quality management as public value procurement, and presents a series of tools for analyzing and improving organizational processes.

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NEWS AND RESOURCES

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I ALSO COOK

Some favorite recipes of my own